It took quite a bit of fussing about to gateway between the IBM internal Plan 9 cluster and the Blue Gene VLAN, but with the help of Forsyth's new Ethernet driver for BG/l, Inferno as an intermediary on the front-end node, and a few other bits and pieces... we were able to cpu(1) into Blue Gene I/O nodes. The CRN-Tree network is pushing packets back and forth and the Torus is being debugged. Overall its been a very productive 80-hour week.
Friday, April 20, 2007
CPU working on Blue Gene
It took quite a bit of fussing about to gateway between the IBM internal Plan 9 cluster and the Blue Gene VLAN, but with the help of Forsyth's new Ethernet driver for BG/l, Inferno as an intermediary on the front-end node, and a few other bits and pieces... we were able to cpu(1) into Blue Gene I/O nodes. The CRN-Tree network is pushing packets back and forth and the Torus is being debugged. Overall its been a very productive 80-hour week.
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What is driving the requirement of porting plan 9 to BG/L, is this a proof of concept, or do some IBM customers express an interest running their code on a plan 9 grid?
Its being funded by Department of Energy -- so it is a customer that is expressing interest. The main interest is in finding something that is a balance between light-weight-kernels and general-purpose kernels such as Linux. The general idea is to broaden the application base and the approachability of the system.
airwick you got /.'d ... http://slashdot.org/articles/07/06/19/1215253.shtml
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